SHEET OR · OREGON · S. 5653
Electricity prices in Oregon are up 1%.
Meanwhile 103.9 gigawatts of new power, 92% of it solar, wind and batteries, is waiting to connect to the grid.
Write your senatorsU.S. average: 18.2¢, up 6.8%, about $10 more a month
103.9 GW across 280 projects, 92% of it solar, wind and batteries
- Solar 39.4 GW
- Batteries 47.8 GW
- Wind 8.7 GW
- Gas + other 8 GW
510K homes’ worth of clean energy from solar and wind projects that already have grid agreements
Prices: EIA, residential, January–August 2026 vs. 2025. Extra cost: the state’s 2024 average household use times the price increase; actual bills vary. Queue: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and GridTracker (CC BY 4.0), end of 2025. Projects are counted where they would be built, their power may serve other states, and most projects in the queue never get built. Homes’ worth is a year’s electricity, not around-the-clock supply.
The Boardman to Hemingway power line applied for federal approval in 2007 and did not start construction in Oregon until June 2025.
Source 1: permits.performance.gov · Source 2: edocs.puc.state.or.us